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The History Of The Hebrew People. By Charles Foster Kent,

Ph.D. (Smith and Elder.)—In this book Professor Kent takes up an earlier work, in which he had told the story of the United Kingdom. It will be found by the student prepared to......

The Story Of Ab. By Stanley Waterloo. (a. And C.

Black.)— This is not the first attempt to write the story of prehistoric man. Sir Arthur Helps laid the scene of his " Realtnah" in a lake- village ; but the lake-village......

Boston Neighbours In Town And Out. By Agnes Blake Poor.

(G. P. Putnam's Sons. 9s.)—Here we have a collection of stories dealing with American well-to-do middle-class life in a sub- cynical, mildly realistic style, which does not in......

The Romance Of The Post Office. By Archibald Granger Bowie.

(S. W. Partridge and Co.)—The beginning of the Post Office may be assigned to the eighteenth century, though there was something like a public conveyance of letters long before.......

On The Indian Trail. By R. Egerton Young. (r.t.s.)— These

"short and simple annals" of a missionary's work among the Cree and Salteaux Indians are remarkably interesting. They contain both the grave and the gay. Mr. Young never forgets......

Natalia. By J. Forsyth Ingram. (horace Marshall And Son....

6d.)—On July 8th, 1497, Vasco da Gama sailed from Lisbon to complete and verify discoveries made some years before by Bartholomew Dias. On Christmas Day in the same year he......

Essai D'une Bibliographic De 12 Langue Basque. Par Julien...

Additions et corrections, citations et references, journaux et revues. (Maisonneuve, Paris. 25 francs. Ouvrage couronne par l'Institut.)—This volume is a continuation and......